A Tale of Two Punches

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” as Charles Dickens opens “A Tale of Two Cities” back in 1859. One of my friends posted on her blog about how she came to accept, “I am enough.” An outstanding example presented was that of a beautiful, juicy, delicious peach. Was the peach totally awesome? Yes. Then, someone came by that didn’t quite like peaches. That hurt the peach’s feelings naturally. Does it make the peach any less delicious, beautiful and juicy? Nope! Does it make the peach any less lovable? Nope! Rejection can be one of the worst of times. But one of the best of times can be realizing that “I am enough.”

This recipe originally had you make the lemonade separately, the orange juice separately and then you added 1/3 of the OJ, 1/3 of the lemonade and 1/3 of the 7UP together with a little almond extract and vanilla extract. I tried to reduce and reuse the previous recipe to recreate this version I had at a Pampered Chef party 10 years ago. It wasn’t on the Pampered Chef website though.